Model years to avoid

Lincoln Aviator

What it says about you

Opinion

Genuinely handsome, genuinely quiet, and the chimes are recorded by an orchestra. You mention the chimes.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

8 model years on record, 278 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 3. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

The years to look at closely: 2020 (screen). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

Every year

  1. 2026 6 recalls 1 complaints
  2. 2025 14 recalls 13 complaints
  3. 2024 8 recalls 6 complaints
  4. 2023 16 recalls 21 complaints
  5. 2022 21 recalls 44 complaints
  6. 2021 28 recalls 38 complaints
  7. 2020 screen 104 complaints
  8. 2005 0 recalls 51 complaints

What does a Lincoln Aviator say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.